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UP boosts inspections in hazardous mountain passes

October 20, 2014 Faced with public concern about the risks of crude oil shipments, the Union Pacific railroad last month boosted its rail inspection program on mountain passes in California and the West, dispatching high-tech vehicles with lasers to check tracks for imperfections. UP official [...]

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Work Rules, Discipline Policy Keys to LACMTA Deal

October 17, 2014 SMART Transportation Division members represented by General Committee of Adjustment GO 875 have approved a new agreement with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority that attains all of the goals sought by the committee’s negotiating team. The general co [...]

Tags bus, General Chairperson James Williams, LACMTA Metro

GLA Pilots Land Deal After Years in Holding Pattern

October 17, 2014 After nearly three years of mediation with Great Lakes Airlines in conjunction with the National Mediation Board, SMART Transportation Division-represented airline pilots employed by the company have finally reached an agreement with the carrier. Following several requests by [...]

Tags Great Lakes Airlines, Transportation Division Local 40

Railroads press against proposals to slow oil trains

October 17, 2014 U.S. railroads are rallying customers, including lumber and steel companies, to fight a government proposal to slow trains hauling crude oil. Urged by railroads, more than a dozen companies and business groups are warning regulators that cutting speeds to 40 mph from 50 mph w [...]

Tags AAR, Association of American Railroads, crude oil

44 injured in Arkansas train collision

October 16, 2014 WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ark. – Forty-four people were injured as a passenger train collided with a freight train south of West Fork on Thursday morning (Oct. 16), according to the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management. Of those injured, five are in critical condition while t [...]

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Mother of former UTU Auxiliary President Menges dies

October 16, 2014 Laurine G. Wildhaber, 82, the mother of former Auxiliary of the United Transportation Union International President Carol Menges, died Oct. 14, at the University of Missouri Hospital and Clinics. Carol is the spouse of SMART Transportation Division Missouri State Legislative [...]

Tags Auxiliary of the United Transportation Union, Laurine G. Wildhaber, Menges

CN opens state-of-the-art employee training facility

October 15, 2014 HOMEWOOD, Ill. – Canadian National Railway Company Oct. 14 officially opened its new employee training center in suburban Chicago. The 55,000-square-foot facility will host up to 250 CN students from across the United States every week, with hands-on training for all key rai [...]

Tags Canadian National Railway Company, CN

Bid report boosts CSX stock, but deal seen as remote

October 14, 2014 Shares of No. 3 U.S. railroad CSX Corp rose nearly 10 percent on Monday (Oct. 13) following a report of a rebuffed takeover bid by Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd (CP.TO), but analysts said any such deal would face significant regulatory and other hurdles. “You could make [...]

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Two major rail operators may merge

October 13, 2014 Canadian Pacific Railway has approached and been rebuffed by CSX about a merger that could bring together two of the world’s largest railroad operators, according to a published report Sunday afternoon on the website of The Wall Street Journal. If a merger were negotiat [...]

Tags Canadian Pacific, CP, CSX

Disgruntled employee steals train

October 13, 2014 A jaunt on a stolen train Thursday ended in a crash and possible federal felony charges for the 22-year-old driver. Derek Skyler Brux was charged Friday with reckless endangering, felony destruction of property and felony destruction, obstruction or removal of railroad track [...]

Tags BNSF, Stolen Train